A Morales Minute

Saturday was the morning egg hunt! Hunting by the shed! The kids had been practicing hiding and hunting eggs for the past week or so. When they'd have friends over they'd grab a bag of eggs and hide them so others could find them. They were eager to hunt for real treasure (hard boiled and candy filled) eggs today. We only had a little over two dozen eggs to find. You'd think in a young yard it wouldn't take long to find them all but these kiddos had to really hunt for some. And wouldn't you know it, they wished we had more to find. Maybe next year! Easter outfits!! Easter Sunday was a little different for us. Jaime had a meeting with the mission president, I sang in sacrament meeting, Olivia gave a talk in primary, and after church we went to have dinner with family in Grandview.  I was grateful that Lori, Elizabeth, and Jon were able to go too. It's been a while it seems since we've had many of us together at mom's. Af...

Tonight we had the wonderful blessing of having the missionaries over to have dinner with us. With Jaime's calling as Ward Mission Leader we have the elders in our home at least once a week if not more. I've really come to love and enjoy having these boys in our home. When their dinner plans get cancelled they'll call  Jaime to see if they can come here since they feel at home here. That's good to hear. We're always sad when one gets transferred but we've enjoyed the new ones who come through. Jaime makes a good connection with them. We had one elder, Elder Babers, who wanted to finish his mission here. He loved working with Jaime. But on the last transfer of his mission he was out of here. :( So when I found out the missionaries would be here for dinner tonight I decided to make our Easter dinner in case they don't get one Sunday. I baked a ham with pineapple and a glaze, potato casserole, green beans, and crescent rolls. I even made an apple pie for desser...

Tyler LOVES salsa and chips. As long as it's not "picey". He will ask to eat it almost everyday.  And some days he will get it out and pour some himself. As you can see it flowed over his bowl.  One Sunday evening we busted out Life to teach the kids how to play. They really enjoyed it. They liked getting married and getting gifts for having kids. The boys ask to play it almost every day now. It's too bad it's such a long game. I'm sure when they can read we will play it more. Another school day! These beauties of mine love to socialize. They have fun getting together with friends at school and can hardly wait to get homework and other things done so they can go out and play with more friends! Last night I let the girls play outside till 8 with Miah, Ashley, Sophie, and Emily. They were shocked! They were playing so well I and getting lots of exercise I didn't want to end it too early! Course they still weren't ready to ...

The last couple times I asked my boys why we have Easter I didn't get the answer I wanted. Even though I'd told them about Christ's Resurrection it didn't seem to stick. So I decided to plan an FHE lesson that would help them to visualize the story. We've acted out the Christmas story multiple times so I thought maybe if they saw the Resurrection story (do we call it that? Or Easter Story? Resurrection helps kids know what Easter is. Hmmm..) they'd have something to picture to make it easier to remember.  I had done the egg hunt with items in each egg representing the story before. This time, after the kids found the eggs I had the girls and Jaime and I take turns reading the scriptures that went with them. The boys had a hard time with listening to the scriptures but they enjoyed seeing what was in each egg like soap, crown of thorns, nails, and of course the empty egg.  After the scripture readings I moved them to the table and gave them bread dough, and a mar...

This and that and Spring Break - woo hoo! I helped throw a baby shower for my friend Stephanie.  My first diaper cake. Fun to put together! I watched Stephanie's girls on Monday March 31st when she went to the hospital hoping to deliver. False alarm. She ended up going in on midnight April 2nd and delivered her new baby girl at 12:57 p.m. Long time to be in to deliver…well for me it is. ;) I went to visit her in the hospital and see sweet Zoey. While I was their I went to visit Tiffany who had her baby girl the day before, an April Fool's baby. I loved seeing the two newborn babes.  Aidan still likes to pull out puzzles and put them together, over and over before he puts them away. He doesn't need help on them anymore. I made my first baby quilt. I have a friend who's quite the quilter and learned some things from her. I'm eager to get started on another one.  Jaime surprised us by asking if we wanted to play SORRY. We jumped at the of...

My grandparents, Earl and Hazel Noble, celebrated their 67th anniversary on March 22, 2014. What a blessing to be able to spend that much time with the one you love! I'm envious. It's a gift and blessing I hope to have with Jaime. I can't imagine being here without him. Yes, I like country music. There's a song in particular by Lee Brice that I love. The words are so sweet. I also like how the couple in the song had 6 kids like my grandparents. My favorite line is "And overuse 'I love you.'" Happy Anniversary Grandma and Grandpa and Congratulations! "Love Like Crazy" They called them crazy when they started out Said, "Seventeen's too young to know what loves about" They've been together fifty-eight years now That's crazy He brought home sixty-seven bucks a week Bought a little 2 bedroom house on Maple Street Where she blessed him with six more mouths to feed Now that's crazy Just ask him how he di...